Improvement in cultivators



. R. BULLOCK.

' Cultivator.

No. 56,173. Patented July 10. 1866.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IMPROVEM ENT IN CU LTIVATO RS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 56,173, dated July 10,1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT BULLOCK, of South Mills, in the county ofCamden, of the State of North Carolina, have invented a new and usefulImprovement on a Plow for Weeding Oorn,0otton,or any'other Crops Sowed0r Planted in Furrows or Drills; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear. and exact description of the constructionand operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings,making a part of this specification, in which Figure l is a perspectiveview; Fig. 2, a longitudinal elevation; Fig. 3, a birds eye view; andFigs. 4 and 5, the front and reverse views of the weeding-shears, whichhave been removed from the stock.

At AA are holes through the stock, in which are to be adjusted thedoweled part of the shears O G, which are secured by keys at a a, andbraced by iron bolts starting from the center eyebolt under the stock ata and running to the fore end of the iron share at Y, and adjusted bythe double nut, as at b b, the other rod running through the woodenland-side at G, in which position Fig. 3 represents the weeders from bto 01. These weeders may be changed into the holes B B, and then theiron plates are to be unscrewed at e and f and changed from right toleft, so that they will be reversed in their action, and then theiron-rod braces must be shifted, so that the one fixed at Y will befastened on the stock in the eyebolt at Z, the other bolt shifted fromthe hole at c to s.

The bull-tongues at the right and left side may be used to check off orremoved if not wanted. The holes in the iron plates are so spaced as toadmit of their being drawn in or out by the bolts 0 and f to widen thefront. and with the play of the adjustable screws at b b, will give anyopening required.

The plow is to be worked with double team. The hole at H is for theking-bolt of the single-tree bar, which is to be checked by properchains. (Not represented in the drawings.)

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination of the stock with the weeding-shears, the iron-rodbraces, the eye-holes, and iron bolts, when these several parts arearranged, constructed, and adjusted substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

ROBERT BULLOCK.

Witnesses:

M10. 0. BAKER, W. K. WoonsoN.

